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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Worked at an absolutely soul-crushing gig after a new micro-manager took over and the next gig was slow coming. The micro-manager didn’t like one smart but blunt underling correcting him so he took away the OT and standby the underling had depended on - and us; the underling was smart as fuck - and financially ruined the underling by timing it right after a new car and house purchase based on that 10 year financial history.

    Underling attempted suicide-by-hanging in front of our main dev area.

    Company had counsellors for a whole day, and the micro-manager immediately focused on how unstable someone must be to commit to suicide instead of on how awful a workplace it must be.






  • Has anybody been able to build a statically linked binary

    The question should by why you’d want to. Careful if your reply is something about ‘one binary to work on a very diverse arrangement of library pinnings’ because the next question would be ‘why would you think that’s either achievable or valuable as a goal’; and toss in a ‘why try to ship the same binary in several different repos anyway’ bonus question.

    In short, if your biggest problem is how to build a binary that works everywhere, you have a lot of questions about responsible build/release processes to answer, and they will be embarrassing for you.









  • DO we? Holy shit. Here I was just about to think it was weird.

    But. I hope we get the right background check. Even before this orange stain, my local SPCA was checking backgrounds via an American company and I was sure I didn’t want my personal info going abroad to some corp. I walked no dogs.

    I work in private-possum stuff now (like secret-squirrel but less) and I’ve got cop in-laws (mounties are federal cops). So I’ve been checked so much it’s almost a sport. Send my info abroad? Nope.